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Club facts: Anderlecht

RSC Anderlecht
Formed:
1908
Nicknames:
Paars-wit (Purple and Whites, Dutch), Les Mauves et Blancs (Purple and Whites, French)

UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets)
• UEFA Cup Winners' Cup (2): 1976, (1977), 1978, (1990)
• UEFA Cup (1): 1983, (1984)
• UEFA Super Cup (2): 1976, 1978

Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets)
League title: 34 (2017)
Belgian Cup: 9 (2008)

Ten-year European record (UEFA Champions League unless indicated otherwise)
2016/17:
UEFA Europa League quarter-finals (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round)
2015/16:
UEFA Europa League round of 16
2014/15:
UEFA Europa League round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League group stage)
2013/14:
group stage
2012/13:
group stage
2011/12:
UEFA Europa League round of 32
2010/11: UEFA Europa League round of 32 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League play-offs)
2009/10: UEFA Europa League round of 16 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League play-offs)
2008/09: second qualifying round
2007/08: UEFA Cup round of 16 (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round)

Records
UEFA club competition
• Biggest home win
9-0: Anderlecht v Derry City FC
23/11/65, European Champion Clubs' Cup first round first leg

• Biggest away win
1-10: FC Haka v Anderlecht
14/09/66, European Champion Clubs' Cup first round first leg

• Heaviest home defeat
0-5: Anderlecht v Paris Saint-Germain
23/10/13, UEFA Champions League group stage
0-5: Anderlecht v FC Bayern München
06/03/08, UEFA Cup round of 16 first leg

• Heaviest away defeat
10-0: Manchester United FC v Anderlecht
26/09/56, European Champion Clubs' Cup preliminary round second leg

UEFA Champions League (group stage to final only)
• Biggest home win
4-2: Anderlecht v FC Dynamo Kyiv
18/10/00, first group stage
2-0: Anderlecht v Galatasaray AŞ
26/11/14, group stage
2-0: Anderlecht v Real Madrid CF
14/03/01, second group stage

• Biggest away win
2-3: PSV Eindhoven v Anderlecht
08/11/00, first group stage
0-1: Celtic FC v Anderlecht
05/12/17, group stage
0-1: Real Betis Balompié v Anderlecht
06/12/05, group stage

• Heaviest home defeat
0-5: Anderlecht v Paris Saint-Germain (see above for details)

• Heaviest away defeat
5-0: Paris Saint-Germain v Anderlecht
31/10/17, group stage